WWI Soldiers' Messages Discovered After 109 Years
Letters from soldiers en route to France, over a century old, offer a poignant glimpse into their journey, and help unite their families.
The Brown family found a bottle containing the letters on October 9 at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia.
"We do a lot of cleaning up on our beaches and so would never go past a piece of rubbish. So this little bottle was lying there waiting to be picked up,"
said Deb Brown, who found the bottle with her husband Peter and daughter Felicity during a quad bike expedition to clear the beach of rubbish.
Inside the bottle were cheerful letters written in pencil by Privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, dated August 15, 1916.
Author's summary: Century-old letters found in Australia.
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